US bishop: Gays should be ‘disciplined like children’ if they try to marry each other

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I’d like to see him try to ‘discipline’ me.
I’m not a child that the church is so used to abusing. I’m a grown man and fully capable of defending myself if necessary. Especially from middle aged, ignorant pious virgins, who think they can speak honestly on sexual matters, like this guy.
Bring it on.

I don’t know how to make international calls, so you’ll have to add the numbers for that.

Reaction in the US is almost universal outrage, even in the center-left Catholic press. The contrast between “her” words and “Cardinal” Timmie Dolan’s with those of Pope Francis is being constantly pointed out.

No, Francis is FAR from perfect, but he’s the breath of LIFE after John-Paul II and the Panzer Pope. If they make the former a “saint” after his WAR on GLBTQAI people, I know what I’d LIKE the response to be, but I am a law-abiding peaceful recovering Catholic QUEER .

On the side? That’s an interesting variant of the usual positions that many a prelate or lower functionary of the RC (spelt whichever way you wish, but pronounced in only one way) church has found himself in.

Only two states in the US forbid corporal punishment in private schools, in the other 48 states students are regularly subjected to paddling in private schools, while the majority of private schools do not beat their students, the minority that do are for the most part religious.
You have to wonder, do fundimentalists have something wrong with them that they need to hurt people, especially those that can’t defend themselves?

LMAO sounds like the old god-bother must be wallowing in nostalgia for the days before they were stopped from running institutions where they could discipline naughty children by most civilised countries, usually by ‘fiddling’ with them, sexually. Is he saying between the lines that he’d like to fiddle with gays – purely for ‘discipline’ purposes of course?

Perhaps it’s the permissiveness of our society that people think that if you don’t get what you want that you’re somehow being hateful

And we all know what happens when when what these hypothetical children “want” the right not to be buggered by Priests …

To follow your analogy to its logical conclusion Tom, take good note: when a child’s parents are irrational hate-filled child abusers, society sees to it that they are taken out of circulation and punished.

Of course, what makes the Church worse is that it is an unfit parent convicted in the courts of sexually abusing children, who now is trying to tell other parents how to do their jobs.

Is this scum a man of God or a hatefull Nazi. How dare he tell non Catholics for a start, let alone his “flock” who they can and cant marry or love. Does he think God would be proud that this bigot is representing his son on Earth. Appalling man and apalling organization. No wonder people are leaving it in their droves.

Leave this guy in a room with me with the implement that I was beaten with by Marist priests when I was at school and I’ll show him the error of his ways.
Just shut the f#ck up. Gay marriage is coming to UK soon and it will arrive in the USA eventually, whatever the roman Catholic Church says.

The Wikipedia article on this undereducated, mendacious joker says: “When remarking about who was responsible for the sexual abuse crises in the Catholic Church, he said that the devil was the principal force behind the lawsuits.”

This ‘devil’ person seems to have been responsible for all the things that cannot be explained as the actions of an ‘all-loving;’ god. Is that why they invented him … to explain away all the bad things their god does? Of course, if he really exists, they should bring him to court ……

He was involved with the priest who was “accidentally” stuck in a pair of handcuffs with a leather face mask and a steel bar gag his mouth, wearing an orange jump suit. That’s how he disciplines naughty little children. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVgeUMTgoaQ

Reminds me of the Little Britain politician sketches. “And then my clothes accidentally fell off and I slipped and impaled myself on…” Sounds like he’d love to bring some ‘disciplining’ to the table. Raunchy little cultist.

And quite probably this Mr. Thomas John Paprocki has recently whipped with concern into a local cinema, in his skirts and accessories, to watch “12 Years a Slave” and then emerged shaking his head with moral disapproval at the appalling way that whites used to discipline blacks.

The hypocrisy and the lack of integrity revealed by some human beings is staggering.

I don’t know how to make international calls, so you’ll have to add the numbers for that.

Reaction in the US is almost universal outrage, even in the center-left Catholic press. The contrast between “her” words and “Cardinal” Timmie Dolan’s with those of Pope Francis is being constantly pointed out.

No, Francis is FAR from perfect, but he’s the breath of LIFE after John-Paul II and the Panzer Pope. If they make the former a “saint” after his WAR on GLBTQAI people, I know what I’d LIKE the response to be, but I am a law-abiding peaceful recovering Catholic QUEER .

These arrogant arseholes think they still hold the authority over people like they once did. I would like to meet this crep in a dark ally somewhere and he would soon find out who would be “punished” I would thke the pain and suffering of every little boy abused by the Roman paedophiole catholic Cult out of his ugly hide. Just who the phuck does he think he is. Some no mark creep in a red dress and lace. Oh I am so angry I could scream. I feel like going out and fin ding a priest and give him a good hiding. ARRRRRGH!

Do you know, I thought it was ONLY me that felt like that about bashing up a priest – I hesitate to say bash a bishop.

I have the very same feelings, Paddyswurds…
I want to go and reduce nearby SALFORD CATHEDRAL to ash with a box of Swan but I am wary of even mentioning it on here in case I get PC Clutterbuck on my case; anyway the whole fercking place is solid marble, so it would be a waste of the matches.

mmmm
yes I can imagine
bend ova and a smack on the botty wotty.
the continual media cycle of church sexual throughout the world by christian churches is obviously lost on him….”people in glass houses….”

As a gay Christian man myself, I refuse to be looked down upon as a child just because of my sexual orientation and wanting the privilege of marriage. I don’t think this bishop would want anybody looking down on him for any reason either. I think he has a problem with sticking to the golden rule which says “do unto others as you would want them to do unto you”. I am created in God’s image, God knew me before I was born, and I existed in the mind and heart of God before I was born. I am not a mistake because God doesn’t make mistakes. God was just as intentional in making me gay as he was in making this bishop straight. Equality is the answer.

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